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That screams to me, "this is going to bitrot at some point in the future".
Anybody else remember the NPM debacle?
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> I
have no objection to Markdown but I'm not sure what
it would gain us exactly,
> other than maybe someone younger than 35 could
edit the documentation.
LOL. OK. I suppose I should comb the archives, but how many of us are actually using nmh these days? I mean,
I don't REALLY want to know whether I'm as much of a dinosaur as I fear, but who are we maintaining nmh for?
From: nmh-workers-bounces+doug=dougwellington.com@nongnu.org <nmh-workers-bounces+doug=dougwellington.com@nongnu.org> on behalf of Ken Hornstein
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Subject: Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X
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>>In a more practical sense, I am not sure there is anyone with the free
>>cycles to convert the current man pages into some other markup language.
>
>This seems like the sort of thing that should be possible to automate, and
>that question has been raised before. A quick search turned up the
>following, among others:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13433903/convert-all-linux-man-pages-to-text-html-or-markdown
> https://jeromebelleman.gitlab.io/posts/publishing/manpages/
I am ... concerned about depending on pandoc, because of this:
Pandoc is available in lxplus, aiadm and most RPM repositories. It's
written in Haskell, which means it relies on hundreds of megabytes of
library dependencies.
That screams to me, "this is going to bitrot at some point in the
future". There seems to be a wealth of man/mdoc/roff converters and I
feel like there are always going to be some kind of nroff converter, at
least until Y2038.. I have no objection to Markdown but I'm not sure
what it would gain us exactly, other than maybe someone younger than 35
could edit the documentation.
--Ken
>>cycles to convert the current man pages into some other markup language.
>
>This seems like the sort of thing that should be possible to automate, and
>that question has been raised before. A quick search turned up the
>following, among others:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13433903/convert-all-linux-man-pages-to-text-html-or-markdown
> https://jeromebelleman.gitlab.io/posts/publishing/manpages/
I am ... concerned about depending on pandoc, because of this:
Pandoc is available in lxplus, aiadm and most RPM repositories. It's
written in Haskell, which means it relies on hundreds of megabytes of
library dependencies.
That screams to me, "this is going to bitrot at some point in the
future". There seems to be a wealth of man/mdoc/roff converters and I
feel like there are always going to be some kind of nroff converter, at
least until Y2038.. I have no objection to Markdown but I'm not sure
what it would gain us exactly, other than maybe someone younger than 35
could edit the documentation.
--Ken